PowerShell Job Trends in Edinburgh

Windows PowerShell
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 80 85
Rank change year-on-year +43 +5 +16
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 51 11 25
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 4.26% 1.20% 1.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.91% 3.05% 4.43%
Number of salaries quoted 21 11 22
10th Percentile - £51,068 £55,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £53,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% +6.67% +36.36%
75th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 - £98,474
Scotland median annual salary £51,875 £55,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year -5.68% -6.38% +6.82%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

PowerShell falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 342 361 564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 28.60% 39.54% 41.59%
Number of salaries quoted 167 259 467
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £48,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £68,750 £80,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £98,474 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

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Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 29 April 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in Edinburgh

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Job Locations in Edinburgh

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Edinburgh region over the 6 months to 29 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Balerno - 1 - -
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Scotland

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 35 (68.63%) Azure
2 20 (39.22%) dbt
2 20 (39.22%) Snowflake
3 16 (31.37%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (31.37%) Azure Key Vault
4 13 (25.49%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (11.76%) Entra ID
6 6 (11.76%) GitHub
6 6 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (5.88%) OneDrive
7 3 (5.88%) Power Platform
7 3 (5.88%) SaaS
8 2 (3.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.92%) AWS
8 2 (3.92%) GCP
8 2 (3.92%) Google Workspace
8 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (3.92%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.96%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.69%) Telnet
2 3 (5.88%) Firewall
2 3 (5.88%) LAN
2 3 (5.88%) WAN
3 2 (3.92%) BGP
3 2 (3.92%) Broadband
3 2 (3.92%) MPLS
3 2 (3.92%) Wireless
4 1 (1.96%) DHCP
4 1 (1.96%) DNS
4 1 (1.96%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (1.96%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.96%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.96%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.96%) Power BI
2 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (17.65%) JIRA
2 6 (11.76%) Jenkins
General
1 34 (66.67%) Finance
2 12 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (15.69%) Front Office
3 8 (15.69%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.92%) Games
4 2 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (35.29%) Senior
2 16 (31.37%) Azure Engineer
3 10 (19.61%) Applications Engineer
4 8 (15.69%) Platform Specialist
5 6 (11.76%) 3rd Line Support
5 6 (11.76%) Security Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Applications Support
6 4 (7.84%) Applications Support Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Support Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Lead
7 3 (5.88%) Network Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Architect
8 2 (3.92%) Consultant
8 2 (3.92%) Solutions Consultant
9 1 (1.96%) Cloud Engineer
9 1 (1.96%) Developer
9 1 (1.96%) Lead Network Engineer
9 1 (1.96%) Microsoft 365 Architect
9 1 (1.96%) Senior Architect
9 1 (1.96%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (19.61%) GraphQL
1 10 (19.61%) OAuth
2 8 (15.69%) FIX Protocol
2 8 (15.69%) OpenAPI
2 8 (15.69%) Swagger
2 8 (15.69%) YAML
3 2 (3.92%) LDAP
3 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (3.92%) OpenID
3 2 (3.92%) REST
3 2 (3.92%) SAML
3 2 (3.92%) SOAP
4 1 (1.96%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.69%) Equities
1 8 (15.69%) Fixed Income
2 4 (7.84%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.92%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.92%) Cyberattack
3 2 (3.92%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.92%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.92%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.92%) Robotics
3 2 (3.92%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.96%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 22 (43.14%) Windows
2 15 (29.41%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.92%) Linux
3 2 (3.92%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (58.82%) Asset Management
2 28 (54.90%) Coaching
3 23 (45.10%) CI/CD
3 23 (45.10%) DevOps
4 22 (43.14%) Agile
5 20 (39.22%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (35.29%) ITIL
7 17 (33.33%) Mentoring
8 16 (31.37%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (25.49%) Roadmaps
10 12 (23.53%) Data Modelling
11 11 (21.57%) Root Cause Analysis
12 8 (15.69%) Change Management
12 8 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (15.69%) Data Transformation
12 8 (15.69%) Investment Management
12 8 (15.69%) OO
12 8 (15.69%) Platform Engineering
12 8 (15.69%) Secrets Management
12 8 (15.69%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 29 (56.86%) SQL
2 17 (33.33%) Python
3 9 (17.65%) C#
4 8 (15.69%) Bash
5 2 (3.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (11.76%) CISSP
1 6 (11.76%) CREST Certified
1 6 (11.76%) SANS
2 4 (7.84%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (5.88%) Degree
4 2 (3.92%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.92%) CCNA
4 2 (3.92%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.92%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.92%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (27.45%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.92%) GDPR
2 2 (3.92%) NCSC
2 2 (3.92%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (15.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (35.29%) Terraform
2 4 (7.84%) Ansible
3 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.92%) Grafana
4 2 (3.92%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.96%) Forefront Identity Manager
Vendors
1 33 (64.71%) Microsoft
2 9 (17.65%) Cisco
3 8 (15.69%) Charles River
4 4 (7.84%) Ab Initio
4 4 (7.84%) IBM
5 3 (5.88%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.92%) F5
6 2 (3.92%) Fortinet
6 2 (3.92%) SolarWinds
6 2 (3.92%) Splunk
7 1 (1.96%) Meraki
7 1 (1.96%) Proofpoint